Dirty_Boogie
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Finally got round to boxing my dual Victory V1 Kraken (PedalPCB) and The Jack (John) pedal. I am such a huge fan of these pedals, and having built the Kraken, Jack and Cobbler as individual pedals, I decided to create a "channel switching" dual pedal. Was going to do a 3-channel box for all 3, but 2 does the trick (and in a manageable 1590XX enclosure).
My goal was to mimic the crunch and lead channels on an amp, and on Robert's suggestion, the PedalPCB Intelligent Relay Bypass Module could be configured to work as channel switcher, by connecting the "Control" pads on each board. So, stomp on one footswitch, and that pedal (channel) is activated, and the other is auto-bypassed, and vice versa. What I also liked about this is that if you stomp on the active channel, it bypasses it as well, effectively giving you the third, clean channel. Took a bit of futzing with these relay boards to get the channel switching to work (power on, with the footswitch engaged changes mode), but once set, it works like a champ. I wanted to mount these relay boards standing on their sides, but due to the location of the 100uF cap, I had to flip one of these boards so that it would fit next to the momentary footswitch. That meant that the wiring order to the main board of one of the pedals had to be reversed. Didn't think of that when initially wiring it, so had to desolder, and reconnect the 4 wires on the one board (which then lost some of the clean look of the connections.) Other than that, the wiring did take much longer than a single pedal board, but I was in no rush. While I didn't check the two boards before boxing (I knew they would work
) I did make sure the switching was functional. The only mods I did (which I've done with all the Victory pedals) is to change the Volume pot to an A1M as they get way too loud in the first 25%; and on one one of the boards, I mounted the 1uF and 100nF film caps on the underside, so that the output jack would fit.
In hindsight, I should have switched the order of the circuits, so that I could have called it the Kraken Jack; it shall now forever be known as Jack Krakhead.
A whole lotta drilling (unfortunately dropped it and put a small chip in the paint in the corner) - love this Tayda "Candy Yellow" gold sparkle:
Gut shots - front, and then back, with the relay boards:
Quick and (really) messy demo below, mainly to show the Copper (Vox-style) first, and then the channel switching on the Jack Krakhead.
My goal was to mimic the crunch and lead channels on an amp, and on Robert's suggestion, the PedalPCB Intelligent Relay Bypass Module could be configured to work as channel switcher, by connecting the "Control" pads on each board. So, stomp on one footswitch, and that pedal (channel) is activated, and the other is auto-bypassed, and vice versa. What I also liked about this is that if you stomp on the active channel, it bypasses it as well, effectively giving you the third, clean channel. Took a bit of futzing with these relay boards to get the channel switching to work (power on, with the footswitch engaged changes mode), but once set, it works like a champ. I wanted to mount these relay boards standing on their sides, but due to the location of the 100uF cap, I had to flip one of these boards so that it would fit next to the momentary footswitch. That meant that the wiring order to the main board of one of the pedals had to be reversed. Didn't think of that when initially wiring it, so had to desolder, and reconnect the 4 wires on the one board (which then lost some of the clean look of the connections.) Other than that, the wiring did take much longer than a single pedal board, but I was in no rush. While I didn't check the two boards before boxing (I knew they would work
) I did make sure the switching was functional. The only mods I did (which I've done with all the Victory pedals) is to change the Volume pot to an A1M as they get way too loud in the first 25%; and on one one of the boards, I mounted the 1uF and 100nF film caps on the underside, so that the output jack would fit.In hindsight, I should have switched the order of the circuits, so that I could have called it the Kraken Jack; it shall now forever be known as Jack Krakhead.
A whole lotta drilling (unfortunately dropped it and put a small chip in the paint in the corner) - love this Tayda "Candy Yellow" gold sparkle:
Gut shots - front, and then back, with the relay boards:
Quick and (really) messy demo below, mainly to show the Copper (Vox-style) first, and then the channel switching on the Jack Krakhead.
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